2.4 Competencies for facilitation
In the following activity you will look further at your skills.
Activity 3
Look again at the list of skills you identified in Activity 2 for the role of the facilitator. How much of an overlap is there between your list and this list of cultural competencies above?
You may wish to update your reflections from Activity 2 in your learning log.
Discussion
A number of the competencies identified by Hogan-Garcia are described in somewhat academic terms, so you may have had to consider what they mean in terms of your own experience of online conversations. However, there is still likely to be a high degree of overlap between the lists.
All these skills or competencies fall under social and communication skills, and emphasise the importance of appropriate social interaction online.
How to overcome assumptions and misinterpretations when they occur is dealt with in a later section.
2.3 Understanding the learners